There is a great coming of age movie that nobody knows about, itâs called The Wackness - Wikipedia
Also, The Babysitter, has some pretty funny/cute scenes that made me want to be a teenager again.
Stand By Me
The Sandlot
This was a fun movie. A return to form for Robin Williams. Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.
âŚI have no idea what thatâs from.
I like female perspective movies. I will look into that one.
Forty Year Old Virgin
âFirst of all since I donât understand the words coming out of your mouthâŚâ
Had to google it. Itâs the guy from Police Academy that does the weird voice.
Great Expectations is another good coming of age movie.
My Girl
Empire Records
Whatâs Eating Gilbert Grape
Now and Then
Girl, Interrupted
I totally forgot how much Ben Affleck was in Dazed and Confused.
I just realized the Moon Tower party is exactly like the party we had on the last day of our school senior year in high school. Some kid had it on his parentsâ farm, everyone drove out there and sat on their tailgates.
The coolest part was that it was like none of the high school BS stuff mattered anymore. The game was over and we were all just comparing notes and reveling in making it through.
I talked to one dude about the time in 9th grade football practice that the coaches had us line up for some stupid drill where you just run right at each other and lower your heads and hit each other like rams. He was one of the biggest kids and everyone in line on my side was jockeying to avoid him. I drew the short straw and just said fuck it Iâm going to run as hard as I can and let the chips fall where they may. When I hit him my back just locked up. It was the only time I ever got injured in football where I had to sit out for a few days.
Anyway, I probably hadnât talked to the guy since 9th grade and I wasnât even sure if he knew who I was. But as soon as I brought it up, he was like âYeah man, I felt so bad about that.â
It reminds me of the Steven Wright joke where he talks about two newborns staring at each other in the infant ward in the hospital. By some miracle coincidence they wind up in the same hospital room on their deathbeds 80 years later. One of them turns to the other and says, âSo, what did you think?â
Life is come crazy shit. Thanks for listening to my old man story.
I just realized thereâs a button in the lower left hand corner on Amazon Prime to watch the entire credits. Holy hell how did I now know about this?
I detest how quickly streamers force you to make a move or lose most of the credits because they want to push the next item in the algorithm the instant youâre done. Just let me stay in the energy of the movie I just watched until Iâm properly done, you assholes.
final reckoning has 30 great minutes (submarine sequence especially, the images in that underwater dive are pure movie magic, and the severance guy is the only side character who doesnât suck) but man these other 2 hours are roughâŚso many bad decisions
First hour should just have been skipped
Dropping both Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby for more Haley Atwell is a bad tradeâŚi liked her in the previous one but there she just doesnât work
Also they tried way too hard to connect to the previous ones, who cares
Like when they brought back the NOC list guy itâs fun for a minute but then they overdo it by at least a 10x factor
Lolâd at the dumb reveal that Shea Wigham is Jon Voightâs son (doesnt make us any younger) and then itâs no longer mentioned
While everyone is focused on Mission Impossible, itâs worth pointing out that the Langley heist from the first movie is essentially a remake of a sequence from the French caper Rafifi.
On your spoilers:
I liked the integration of the Langley guy. His presence did boost the movie a little for me.
Hated the âWhigham is Voightâs sonâ bullshit. Stupid.
Found it irritating that they offered such a bloodless death to a long-running character as seemingly a matter of checking a âweâre supposed to do this in a finaleâ box. I felt nothing. And I love that character.
Agree about Atwell in this one. I like her and she really does it for me in general, but she just canât fill Fergusonâs shoes in this franchise. Ilsa Faust was too good of a character to lose without it hurting. But it seems their hands were tied since Ferguson asked out before the last one.
I need to see Rififi. Have heard such good things. That tidbit helps.
Not killing off hunt was such a cop out too. Especially after two hours of messiah talk.
It was, but I would have been absolutely stunned if they did it. The âfinalâ one is only the final one when the box office shows up soft enough to say so. Until then, they keep their powder dry so that they can keep their options open to brazenly milk the cash cow dry. Itâs a terrible thing, but itâs a reality I accepted going in.
